Boston College was new to the ACC and no one, especially the Eagles, knew what to expect from the new league. Many of the pundits predicted that the Eagles would be too slow to compete with the exceptional athletes in their new conference, that the Eagles were simply too big and too slow.

The Tigers from Clemson University were the first to realize that the opposite just might be true. Last year, BC was able to rely on it's size and strength to almost double the time of possession and number of plays in the Clemson game and keep the CU offense off the field.